Art Department Mission Statement
The art department at saint Mary's College is an integral part of a creative community where woman develop their talents and prepare to make significant contributions to the larger environment.
The Department of Art encourages a rich intellectual life including aestetic and conceptual exploration, spiritual investigation and social responsibility. Faculty act as mentors offering a course of study which fosters the mastery of varied artistic skills and that reflects the critical and creative thinkingof the liberal arts. The liberal education seeks a balanced acquisition of knowledge through formal, academic involvment, interdisciplinary applications, as well as through non-traditional learning such as travel, internships, and multi-cultural exposure.
In its local community as well as in the larger world, the Department of Art shares in the College's broader ambition: to provide its students with keen self-knowledge, lively imagination, lifelong intellectual and cultural interests, and the ability to make socially responsible choices about the future.